A method may include serially joining different video clips from videos of different historical competitions to form a composite video competition, the different video clips comprising an indeterminate subset of clips drawn from a larger pool of clips, wherein each clip from a historical competition has an associated partial result contribution to a final result of the historical competition further include presenting a result during the composite video competition, the result comprising a linked combination of the partial result contributions from the different video clips.
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2. The method of claim 1, wherein the result comprises a first running score for a first participant and a second running score for a second participant.
3. The method of claim 2, where a portion of the first running score comprises scoring by a competitor of the second participant in a first one of the historical competitions.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein a second portion of the first running score comprises scoring by the first participant against a second competitor, distinct from the second participant, in a second one of the historical competitions.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the different video clips have uniform durations.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein the uniform durations comprise uniform durations of time.
7. The method of claim 5, wherein the uniform durations comprise uniform start point and endpoint criterion for the historical competitions.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein the endpoint criterion is selected from a group of criteria consisting of: end of possession in a possession-based or turn-based sport such as basketball or American football; end of an individual down in an American football game, end of an at-bat in a baseball game, and of an individual golf hole in a golf match, the end of a lap in a car race or foot race, the end of a segment in, for instance, a TV weather forecaster broadcast, or the end of a turn in a political debate.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the different video clips have nonuniform durations.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein the composite video competition has a duration corresponding to a duration of each of the different historical competitions, wherein the larger pool of clips from which the different video clips are drawn comprises video clips from time points of the historical competitions that correspond to a same time point of the composite video competition, for a start point, end point or both, and wherein each of the video clips has a duration less than a total duration of a historical competition from which the video clip was drawn.
11. The method of claim 1, wherein the historical competitions comprise historical football games, wherein the composite video competition comprises a composite video football game, wherein the video clips of the larger pool of clips are each of a final two minutes of each of the historical football games, wherein the indeterminate subset of clips are randomly drawn from the larger pool of video clips, wherein the indeterminate subset of video clips form a final two minutes of the composite football game.
12. The method of claim 1 further comprising inserting a clip between the different video clips for use as a commercial, public service announcement, trivia, or other informational content.
13. The method of claim 1, wherein the composite video competition comprises a simulated competition between a first participant and a second participant, wherein a first one of the different video clips is from a first historical competition between the first participant a competitor distinct from the second participant.
14. The method of claim 13 further comprising providing audible commentary regarding the first participant and the second participant as part of the composite video competition.
15. The method of claim 1, wherein the indeterminate subset of clips comprises a subset of a larger universe of clips, the indeterminate subset of clips being drawn from the larger universe of clips that satisfy a selected criterion.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein the composite video competition comprises a competition between a first participant and a second participant and wherein the selected criterion comprises a quality metric of competitors to the first participant and the second participant in the historical competitions.
17. The method of claim 15, wherein the composite video competition comprises a competition held at a venue and wherein the selected criterion comprises the venue such that the larger universe of clips originate from historical competitions at the venue.
18. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the video clips is associated with a plurality of parameters, the method further comprising randomly selecting the different video clips from a pool of video clips based upon at least one of the plurality of parameters.
20. The composite video competition of claim 19 further comprising audible commentary regarding a first participant and a second participant of the composite video competition, wherein a first one of the different non-transitory video clips omits the first participant and wherein a second one of the different non-transitory video clips omits the second participant.
21. The method of claim 1 further comprising randomly drawing the indeterminate subset of clips from the larger pool of clips for the serially joining, wherein the composite video competition is between a first participant and a second participant, wherein the indeterminate subset of clips comprises a first video clip, a second video clip and a third video clip, and wherein each of the first video clip, the second video clip and the third video clip depicts at least one of the first participant and the second participant.
22. The method of claim 1, wherein the result comprises a first score for a first participant and a second score for a second participant, wherein the first score is based upon a first partial result contribution from a first video clip from a first video of a first historical competition between the first participant and a first competitor, different than the second participant, and a second partial from a second video clip from a second video of a second historical competition between the first participant and a second competitor, different than the first competitor, and wherein the second score is based upon a third partial result contribution from a third video clip from a third video of a third historical competition between the second participant and a third competitor, different than the first participant, and a fourth partial result contribution from a fourth video clip from a fourth video of a fourth historical competition between the second participant and a fourth competitor, different than the first participant.
23. The method of claim 1, wherein the result is a score for a simulated competition between a first participant and a second participant and is based upon a first partial result contribution from a first video clip from a first video and a second partial result contribution from a second video clip from a second video, the first partial result contribution having a first value and the second partial result contribution having a second value different than the first value.
24. The method of claim 1, wherein the result comprises a score for each participant of a group of participants competing directly against one another as part of the composite video competition.
25. The method of claim 1, wherein the composite video competition is a simulated competition between two participants and wherein the result is a score for each of the two participants to determine a winner as between the two participants.
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